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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yesterday's announcement that six members of the Senior class had been appointed to teach at Yale-in-China comes as one of many reminders that Yale is not bounded by the four walls of the Campus. Although this significant university experiment across the Pacific may attract only the casual attention of most undergraduates, Chief Justice Taft recently added his word of praise by calling it a great investment in international good-will...
...building in the Gothic style, purporting to be the palace which the tunemaker had built with the proceeds from his song success. On careful examination of this picture however, the building was found to be not a palace, but Cleveland Hall, one of the newer-buildings on the Princeton campus...
...discover that the Yale Seniors were actuated merely by that general restlessness which is manifest in every eastern university. At Princeton the impatience against tradition has reached such a height that not only the Seniors, but the Juniors and Sophomores have discarded regular clothes and are strolling about the campus in "beer suits" which are best described as pajamas made of canvas. And at Cambridge even John Harvard has shifted ground. The hostility toward study and the golden key is, therefore, probably not the only explanation for Yale's athletic prowess...
...Robert Bridges, who was born in 1858 at Shippensburg, Pa.; he is a most genial, attractive, popular gentleman, editor and poet. That Mr. Robert Bridges, American, editor of Scribner's, clubman, author of Bramble Brae, admirer of Roosevelt, was going to sit as a godhead on Ann Arbor campus seemed rather absurd when I heard it. How unhappy, to be sure, he would be; but then, I found I was mistaken. It was the Poet Laureate of England, imported for the little middle-western boys and girls to gaze upon...
Corliss Lamont is the most conspicuous of many prominent undergraduates in many colleges who are in revolt against what they call the "stupidity" of preceding undergraduate generations. They have a genial contempt for the traditional extra-curriculum fetish of the campus-the emphasis on athletics, college papers, clubs, "honors." Their informal program is to go into their extra-curriculum activities, beat the campus boys at their own game, and then, with the prestige so acquired, to sound the praises of more excellent things, such as the pursuit of truth...